Privacy Policy

This policy explains what personal data Vertical Drama Reviews (verticaldramareviews.com) collects, why, and what you can do about it. Short version: you can't create an account here, we don't run ads, and we don't sell your data.

Who we are

The site is run by Vertical Drama Reviews, based in Cyprus. For the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we are the controller of the personal data described here. You can reach us about privacy at hello@verticaldramareviews.com.

What we collect

Technical data when you visit. Like any website, our hosting provider receives your IP address, browser type, the page you asked for and the time of the request. It needs this to deliver the page and keep the site secure. We use your approximate country, which our host works out from your IP address, for one thing only: to decide whether to ask for cookie consent. We store just that yes/no answer in a cookie, not your country or IP address.

Analytics. We use Google Analytics 4 to count visits and see which pages people read and which app links they click. It uses cookies and collects data such as pages viewed, approximate location, device and browser. Google Analytics doesn't log or store IP addresses. Visitors from the EU, EEA, UK and Switzerland get analytics cookies only after saying yes in our cookie banner. Everyone else has analytics on by default and can turn it off at any time under "Cookie settings" in the footer. Details are in our cookie policy.

Emails you send us. If you write to us, we get your email address and whatever you put in the message. We use it only to answer you and fix what you reported.

We don't have accounts, comments, newsletters or contact forms, and we don't knowingly collect sensitive data.

Why we use it (legal bases)

• Delivering and securing the site: our legitimate interest in running a working, safe website (GDPR Art. 6(1)(f)).
• Analytics in the EU, EEA, UK and Switzerland: your consent (Art. 6(1)(a)). You can withdraw it at any time, and that doesn't affect anything done before.
• Analytics elsewhere: our legitimate interest in understanding which pages are useful, with an easy way to opt out.
• Answering emails: our legitimate interest in replying to you, or steps you ask for before a contract, if you write to us about a partnership.

Who receives it

• Vercel Inc. hosts the site and processes request data on our behalf.
• Google Ireland Ltd. / Google LLC provides Google Analytics and processes analytics data on our behalf.
• Our email provider, which stores messages you send us.

We don't sell or rent personal data, and we don't share it with advertisers.

Affiliate links

When you click a link to an app (they start with /go/), you leave our site for the app's store page or website. That site, or an affiliate network, may then set its own cookies and collect data under its own privacy policy. Our redirect itself doesn't set cookies. More on how these links work is on our affiliate disclosure page.

How long we keep it

• Hosting logs: as long as our host keeps them for operations and security, typically a few days to a few weeks.
• Google Analytics event data: 14 months, then it's deleted automatically.
• Your cookie choice: about six months, then we ask again.
• Emails: as long as we need them to handle your message and any follow-up, then we delete them.

International transfers

Vercel and Google may process data in the United States and other countries outside the EU. Those transfers rely on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework where the provider is certified, and on the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses.

Your rights under the GDPR

If you're in the EU, EEA or UK, you have the right to access your data, correct it, delete it, restrict or object to its use, receive it in a portable format, and withdraw consent at any time. Write to hello@verticaldramareviews.com and we'll answer within one month.

You can also complain to a data protection authority. Ours is the Office of the Commissioner for Personal Data Protection (Cyprus), but you can contact the one where you live.

Your rights in California and other US states

If you live in California or another US state with a consumer privacy law, you can ask what personal information we have about you, ask us to delete or correct it, and opt out of its sale or sharing. We don't sell personal information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising, as those terms are defined in the California Consumer Privacy Act. To opt out of analytics anyway, use "Cookie settings" in the footer. We won't treat you differently for using any of these rights. Requests go to hello@verticaldramareviews.com, and we answer within 45 days.

Children

The site is meant for adults. We don't knowingly collect data from children under 16. If you believe a child has sent us personal data, tell us and we'll delete it.

Changes to this policy

If we change how we handle data, we'll update this page and add a note to the change log at the bottom, with the date.

Contact

Privacy questions and requests: hello@verticaldramareviews.com.